Voices, The Peoples News
July 21, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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– Ernest Hemingway
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Undercover investigations expose brutal wildlife killing contests:
Welcome to the cruel world of wildlife killing contests, family events where children play amidst piles of slaughtered animals—and legal in 42 states.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/07/21/undercover-investigations-expose-brutal-wildlife-killing-contests/
# Archaeology
Diver Wanted Ancient Answers, So She Went Right to the Source. Kristin Romey is an archaeologist like Creasman and had been on the hunt for the tomb of Nastasen, a pharaoh of Nubia who had long been forgotten by most. Her belief was that the discovery would shed light on Kush, an ancient civilization that once ruled over a large part of Northern Africa.
https://www.simbaly.com/view/this-diver-wanted-ancient-answers-so-she-went-right-to-the-source/?src=facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=sim_d_us_hazel_sim4_43178_diver-incredible-discovery_all_conv-stv40_conv_dynamic_cost-0.5_286079067&utm_medium=23848995023270628&fbclid=IwAR0LvWgFQzcTrVfgf9UAK4fMgiD9GeT9m17o8JKWiVPwWhUMp9T166vx9PY&page=4
# Border / Immigration
Let’s call the “border crisis” what it is: Another big lie. Republicans and right-wing media claim there’s a huge crisis at the border but the numbers don’t support that narrative.
https://truthout.org/articles/lets-call-the-border-crisis-what-it-is-another-big-lie-from-the-right/
# CoronaVirus
Why Are Soros And Gates Buying UK COVID Testing Company? Billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates are part of a consortium set to buy Mologic, a U.K.-based maker of Covid tests, in an effort to increase access to “affordable state-of-the-art medical technology” around the world, according to a statement released Monday.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2021/07/19/george-soros-and-bill-gates-backed-consortium-to-buy-uk-maker-of-covid-lateral-flow-tests-for-41-million/?sh=79dd0d412687
Nearly 11,000 Deaths After COVID V-ccines Reported to CDC as FDA Adds New Warning to J&J V-ccine –VAERS data released today by the CDC showed a total of 463,457 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 10,991 deaths and 48,385 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and July 9, 2021.
https://ncc4cr.com/2021/07/18/nearly-11000-deaths-after-covid-vaccines-reported-to-cdc-as-fda-adds-new-warning-to-jj-vaccine/
Judge rules Indiana University can mandate COVID-19 vaccine for students, staff.
Indiana University can require its roughly 90,000 students and 40,000 employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19 under a federal judge’s ruling that might be the first of its kind regarding college immunization mandates.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/07/20/federal-judge-upholds-indiana-universitys-covid-19-vaccine-requirement
Florida congressman says he has COVID despite being vaccinated. A Florida congressman has contracted COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated against the deadly virus.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/19/florida-congressman-says-he-has-covid-19-despite-being-vaccinated/
5-Year-Old With No Health Problems Dies of COVID Amid Surge. Though coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths among those under 18 are rare, the toddler’s death is a grim reminder that children are still susceptible.
https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-5-year-old-dies-after-contracting-covid-amid-coronavirus-surge/GSQXBWZLBVGJVKPWTIRW3DUSGQ/
Chicago House Legend Paul Johnson Battles COVID in ICU: Johnson told fans on Instagram that he will have to be put on a ventilator.
https://djmag.com/news/chicago-house-legend-paul-johnson-icu-covid-19
# Economy / Trade
Democrats Urged to Reject Latest GOP Attempt to Hold Social Security ‘Hostage’
“Lindsey Graham and his fellow Republicans will stop at nothing to cut the American people’s earned Social Security and Medicare benefits.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/21/democrats-urged-reject-latest-gop-attempt-hold-social-security-hostage
The United States Underestimates China’s Economic Challenge at Its Own Peril Allies of the United States must increasingly rethink their foreign relations in light of China’s ascendancy.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-challenge/
# Education / Schools
College vaccine mandates rile GOP states: The red states’ moves potentially set up court fights over who has the power to police campus health just as schools prepare to reopen for in-person instruction.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/24/red-states-college-vaccine-mandates-495766
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Environmentalists urge DeSantis to declare Red Tide emergency. Pinellas County has removed 1,277 tons of dead marine life and debris as calls for Gov. Ron DeSantis to declare a state of emergency grow.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2021/07/19/environmentalists-urge-desantis-to-declare-red-tide-emergency/
Bill McKibben: Lessons from the fight for the Grand Canyon. We once saved natural landmarks for their beauty—now it’s for survival, too.
https://news.knowledia.com/US/en/articles/lessons-from-the-fight-for-the-grand-canyon-5d0bac091099b10234cfc57804ccdeeb5d166295
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Global Libya′s battle to protect its endangered forests. A decade of conflict and instability in the North African country has not only taken its toll on people but also on nature
https://www.dw.com/en/libyas-battle-to-protect-its-endangered-forests/a-58205945
Deforestation and wildfires take a toll on the Amazon. The climate in the Amazon has been changing over the last few decades.
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/hotter-and-drier-deforestation-and-wildfires-take-a-toll-on-the-amazon/
A new study shows just how quickly the world’s cryosphere is shrinking.
The world’s frozen areas lost an average of about 87,000 square kilometers (33,000 square miles) a year from 1979 to 2016, and the period of annual freeze has shrunk by more than a week over the nearly four-decade period, according to a new study published in the journal Earth’s Future.
https://www.arctictoday.com/a-new-study-shows-just-how-quickly-the-worlds-cryosphere-is-shrinking/
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Sugar just got a bit CRISPR: precise gene edits can improve sugarcane resilience, reduce its environmental impact https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/sugar-just-got-a-bit-crispr-precise-gene-edits-can-improve-sugarcane-resilience-reduce-its-environmental-impact/
# Global Politics and other news
Colombia Erupts in Protest Again over Right-Wing Gov’t Tax Plans Even as “Solidarity Is Criminalized”
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/21/colombia_anti_government_protests
Colombia’s Export of Mercenaries Scrutinized After U.S.-Trained Soldiers Kill Haiti’s President https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/21/colombian_nationals_jovenel_moise_assassination
China Can Lock Up A Million Muslims In Xinjiang At Once: Our anlaysis reflects what researchers, UN officials, and Western governments have long held: that China’s detention campaign in Xinjiang is the largest against a religious minority since the Nazi camps during World War II.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-camps-prisons-xinjiang-muslims-size
China rounded up so many Muslims in Xinjiang that there wasn’t enough space to hold them.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-uighurs-muslims
# Gov / Politics
The Shadow State: Embracing Corporations As Surrogates For Government Action “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power”.
https://www.dailyadvent.com/news/189a31aaf6d1271f5109d17162fedfae-The-Shadow-State-Embracing-Corporations-As-Surrogates-For-Government-Action
The Senate Deadline That Isn’t One: Understanding the various contours of an imminent failed vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill today https://prospect.org/infrastructure/building-back-america/infrastructure-summer-senate-deadline-that-isnt-one/
McCarthy yanks all GOP picks from Jan. 6 committee: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has decided not to participate in the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 on the Capitol, yanking all of his GOP picks in protest of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) decision to reject two top Republicans.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/564138-mccarthy-yanks-all-gop-picks-from-jan-6-committee
Pelosi rejects Jordan, Banks for Jan. 6 committee: Both GOP lawmakers are staunch allies of former President Trump, and both had voted in January against certifying President Biden’s election victory.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/564122-pelosi-rejects-jordan-banks-for-jan-6-committee
Trump Has Convinced His Followers He’s About to Return to Office This Summer While Trump will not be reinstated, it’s hard to over-emphasize the dangers that Trumpism poses to U.S. democracy.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-has-convinced-his-followers-hes-about-to-return-to-office-this-summer/
Biden Promised Diplomacy, But He’s Overseeing Military Buildup Against China We are witnessing an enormous U.S. military buildup through massive military exercises in the Pacific.
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-promised-diplomacy-but-hes-overseeing-military-buildup-against-china/
Investigating Trump Is “Absolutely” a Possibility, Says January 6 Commission Chair The committee will also investigate lawmakers’ actions in Congress that day, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s.
https://truthout.org/articles/investigating-trump-is-absolutely-a-possibility-says-jan-6-commission-chair/
# Law Enforcement
Biden Said He’d Cut Incarceration in Half. So Far, the Federal Prison Population Is Growing. His team recently announced that thousands of people released early due to COVID could be forced to return after the pandemic.
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2021/07/biden-said-hed-cut-incarceration-in-half-so-far-the-federal-prison-population-is-growing/
How a Shady Cop Kept Getting New Jobs, and Then Became Chief: Jon Geiger was supposed to be barred from being a police officer because of his past, but instead he’s gotten even more power.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-shady-cop-kept-getting-new-jobs-and-then-became-chief
# Legal / Judicial / DOJ
Bless our American traitors: Intelligence analyst Daniel Hale exposed the indiscriminate murder of noncombatants in the global US drone war.
For his heroism, he faces 10 years in prison https://illinoisnewstoday.com/chris-hedges-bless-our-american-traitors/308159/
Harvey Weinstein Extradited to Los Angeles to Face More Rape Charges
https://apnews.com/article/business-arts-and-entertainment-california-extradition-245876c923ba357d7f6f4b0fef649ca8
Top Trump Adviser Arrested and Charged With Secretly Lobbying for the UAE Tom Barrack, head of Trump’s inaugural committee, is accused of obstructing justice and lying to the feds.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/07/top-trump-adviser-arrested-and-charged-with-secretly-lobbying-for-the-uae/
DEA agent arrested for participating in Capitol riots. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agent Mark Sami Ibrahim was arrested and charged on several accounts for his participation in the Capitol riots on January 6.
https://www.theroot.com/drug-enforcement-agent-becomes-1st-federal-officer-arre-1847330691
# Media
Rotten at the Core: the US Appeal of the Assange Ruling: “Nothing that the US government can say about his future treatment is worth the paper it is written on.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/09/rotten-at-the-core-the-us-appeal-of-the-assange-ruling/
How Trump and Conservative Media Are Cashing in on Disinformation. The former president and the “Federalist” are partners in Big Lie grifting.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/07/donald-trump-federalist-big-lie-disinformation/
# Medical / Global
15,000-year-old viruses found in Tibetan glacier ice, and we know nothing about them https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/ancient-viruses-frozen-ice-21072021/
# Medical / Health
‘Profiteering Healthcare System’ Blamed as US Medical Debt Surges to
$140 Billion
One critic said the new estimate of medical debt in collections shows the for-profit healthcare system is “working just the way the corporate price gougers want it to.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/20/profiteering-healthcare-system-blamed-us-medical-debt-surges-140-billion
# Social
It’s Past Time Biden Admin Ended Segregation in This Suburb. The last president warned housewives “they” were coming for your homes. This president sounds much better, but he hasn’t done much so far in “hyper-segregated” Westchester County.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-past-time-the-biden-administration-ended-segregation-in-new-yorks-westchester-county
# Space
Poverty Wages and Tax Dodging Funded Bezos’s Ridiculous Space Trip. This was a step toward the commercialization of space, and I want no part of that.
https://truthout.org/articles/poverty-wages-and-tax-dodging-funded-bezoss-ridiculous-space-trip/
# Technology
US Cyber Warmongering: “The US is stirring up new geopolitical disputes by turning cyber frictions into major conflicts among countries.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/534257-the-long-game-why-the-us-must-rethink-its-cyber-strategy
# Water
One of America’s hottest cities is down to one water well. What happens if the taps go dry? Taps could go dry for Needles’ 5,000 residents, who each drink as much as two gallons of water daily to cope with 120-degree temperatures.
https://editorpen.com/news/health/one-of-americas-hottest-cities-is-down-to-one-water-well-what-happens-if-the-taps-go-dry/
Some water systems push back on treatment costs for ‘forever chemicals’
regulation. Local water utilities worried about getting hit with lawsuits and high cleanup costs are stepping up their lobbying of Congress as lawmakers move to regulate toxic chemicals found in drinking water.
https://www.virginiamercury.com/2021/07/21/some-water-systems-push-back-on-treatment-costs-for-forever-chemicals-regulation/
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